Respiratory insufficiency in neuronopathic and neuropathic disorders

Respiratory insufficiency in neuronopathic and neuropathic disorders.

Twenty-nine patients with a neuronopathic or neuropathic disorder were referred for assessment of respiratory insufficiency between 1978 and 1994. Diagnoses included spinal muscular atrophy (6), chronic idiopathic demyelinating neuropathy (4), Vialetto-van Laere syndrome (3), hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy (3) and a miscellaneous group (5). We also describe seven patients with Guillain...

Respiratory disorders associated with stroke and the role of physiotherapy in the treatment of these disorders

Introduction Stroke is a common neurological disease that can have a negative effect on all parts of the body. The respiratory system is one of the parts of the body that may be damaged by stroke. The respiratory disorders caused by stroke can occur in all three sections of the breath; including metabolic respiration, behavioral respiration and emotional respiration. Disorder in each of these ...

The treatment of respiratory insufficiency.

Alterations in salivary IgA levels in infectious and inflammatory disorders of upper respiratory tract

Background: The airway surfaces are one of the most common ways of entry of infectious agents. Oral cavity associated lymphoid tissues are inductive site of humoral immune responses in inflammatory and infectious disorders of the upper respiratory tract. These lymphoid tissues play important roles in the induction of salivary IgA. The impact of upper respiratory tract diseases on salivary IgA p...

Secondary polycythaemia in chronic respiratory insufficiency.

The relationship between polycythaemia, P50 and SaCO (saturation in carboxyhaemoglobin) has been studied in 50 patients who were hypoxaemic due to chronic respiratory insufficiency. These patients were divided into two groups according to their haemoglobin concentration and haematocrit: 21 polycythaemic patients with haemoglobin greater than or equal to 16 g/dl and haematocrit greater than or e...